Simple Data Parsing from Text Files

Questions & Answers
1

I have a text file that I’m loading into a game to control some timing in my game. All the information is integers (anywhere from 0 to several million) separated by commas, semicolons, and pipes (this thing for people who don’t know |). Is there an easy way of getting the information int by int or do I have to go through and get it character by character and test to see what I’m getting with each one?

Thanks

Example of text file:

1,10;2,100;3;200;4,300;5,400;6,500;7,600;8,700;9,800;10,900|

2

Here you go

void ParseFile()
{
    string text = File.ReadAllText("YourTextFile");

    char[] separators = { ',', ';', '|' };
    string[] strValues = text.Split(separators);

    List<int> intValues = new List<int>();
    foreach(string str in strValues)
    {
        int val = 0;
        if (int.TryParse(str, out val))
            intValues.Add(val);
    }
}

This will return a list of integers in the same order as in the file.

If you need to group them by type of separator, just use Split sequentially (for example: split semicolons first, then for each group, split by commas)